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Should Shakespeare be taught in Africa’s classrooms?

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imageActor Joseph Marcell plays the lead role in The Globe's production of Shakespeare's King Lear in Malta, Valletta. Shakespeare divides opinions and his texts often terrify learners. Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Should William Shakespeare be taught in Africa’s schools and universities? It’s a question that emerges, sometimes flippantly and...

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Explainer: the problem drug patents pose for developing countries

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imageGeneric medicine is essential to regions like the Southern African Development Community where HIV is endemic and cheap drugs are needed. shutterstock

Patents and restrictions on intellectual property have become more problematic for developing nations in the last decade. At the centre of the storm is the development and influx of inexpensive...

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